Digital Music Flashcards
Explain the shift regarding music collection
Used to be a physical collection (CDs, records, vinyls)
Up until 2000s.
Now more digital - MP3, iPod, Alexa, Spotify, YouTube
What did Giles et al. (2007) suggested are 3 important aspects of collecting?
Records are sacred objects
Records are facets of the self (your record collection is a part of you and your identity)
Music is a sensory/emotional experience
Can we see other people’s music taste nowadays?
Not really - their music is more commonly stored on their devices rather than in their houses
Could see their musical activity on Facebook or Spotify etc.
Are there any sacred objects in digital collection of music?
No
What 3 types of music videos on YouTube did Likaren & Salovaara (2015) identify?
Authentic (original recording of a record, original band, live footage of performances)
User-appropriated (lyric videos, illustrated, still - sound file was the same but the visuals were different)
Derivative (cover/dance/parody - people making their own version of the video/music)
What is a limitation of research on digital media?
Things change so much from one year to the next that research findings can very quickly become outdated
What is the most popular YouTube content, according to Likaren & Salovaara (2015)?
Music videos
How many videos were live performances?
25%
How many videos were user-appropriated?
38%
What videos were most viewed?
Authentic videos
What videos were most commented on?
Derivative
What is Spotify deliberately geared towards?
Allowing people to investigate new styles/artists/genres
Can explore different types of music
What is the archival aspect of Spotify?
Can create your own playlists and storage
Can use spotify in the same way that you might have traditionally collected music
Who conducted a Norwegian focus group study?
Luders (2019)
What are aspects of musical streaming services such as Spotify?
Affordances are explorable and archivable
What did Luders (2019) find in a focus group?
People used streaming platforms to explore music and discover things that they did not know about before
What did Luders (2019) argue about Spotify?
The way in which people engage with music is more ephemeral than in the past (lasts for a short time) - can just dip in and out of albums
Not as committed to online music
Don’t have to engage with the whole album as if you had bought the record - don’t feel the need to listen to the whole thing several times
More of an album-sampling rather than an album-level appreciation
How has the change in the consumption of music affected memories/historical aspect of music?
Records were associated with time periods/what they were doing in the past/contained memories
Don’t find this with digital music - the historical aspect isn’t as important. People are less aware or less sensitive towards the points in time when that music was made.
Changes the meaning of listening to/collecting music.
